For furniture and other larger items, you should ensure protection of the finish use a quality corrugated cardboard and be sure to strap the item with either strapping bands or nylon strapping tradeshowtrucking and tradeshowtrucking tape. Double boxing is a must for China, glassware, and other small fragile items. These tradeshowtrucking items should be hand wrapped in a padding tradeshowtrucking such as bubble wrap or paper. The items should be separated from each other with more padding and than placed inside a inner shipping box. These items should than be placed inside the actual shipping box(s) with at least 2" of padding between the inside box and the shipping box.

The advantage is protection, the disadvantage is tradeshowtrucking added weight, size and cost. Crating even small items may cost $50.00 - $100.00, with large items costing hundreds of dollars. Double Corrugated Cardboard Using heavy grades (or double layers) of cardboard is often a reasonable option to crating. The majority of items shipped are shipped in this manner.

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